Wood SCORE!!!

This story starts off sad, but ends happily for me at least. A local sawyer passed away last month and the family is having trouble getting rid of all the “STUFF” he has acuminated in his long lifetime. One of the items that they were particularly interested in liquidating was his inventory of wood. LOTS OF WOOD. This gentleman had several large warehouses full of lumber of different kinds. Thousands upon Thousands of board foot of Cyprus, cherry, heart pine, SYP, white oak, red oak, etc. Well just so happens my wife’s cousin made an offer to the estate and purchased the whole lot for a unbelievable price. He was really only interested in the cypress and heart pine, he offered me the rest if i would just move it. OK!, Well about a thousand trips later we have moved what I estimate to be about 100 tons of lumber to our location. If anyone in the Albany Ga. area needs pine or oak, I have the market cornered, give me call.

Now I know where all the good red oak has been hiding. Wish I was in your area to score some of that…..but it costs more to ship the wood now then it does to buy it. I haven’t had a chance for even a minimal wood gloat yet so I will just have to live vicariously through someone else’s.

I dont think this man ever built anything, he just collected (junk) the metal salvage people have been there for weeks hauling off truckload after truckload of junk. I think he had become a hoarder like you see on TV, Just a much larger scale. the site must have 10 acres with 12 or 15 large warehouses full of junk. There were several LARGE jointer and planers there. But they were way too large for my needs. I think the jointer alone must have weighed a ton. I think it was 12 or 14 inches wide and i think the bed was 8 or 9 feet. Large hunk of iron.